German soaps: GZSZ, UU & AWZ

[Huntress]

 

That's wishful thinking 

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 The show only updates its openings once in a blue moon ... usually they film a complete new opening every 3 years, and then they subsequently butcher it by removing characters, but hardly ever adding new ones. And this goes way back to the show's early days ... sometimes people were simply forgotten to be added, some were removed months before they actually left the show, or a new opening featuring the whole cast premiered two or three weeks before several characters left the show so the opening became outdated quickly.

 

Yvonne's been on the show for 2 years and she hasn't been added to the opening. Erik (joined in spring 2019), Merle, Nazan, Moritz and Tobias (all joined this year) are missing as well.

 

GZSZ Episode Counts: January to December 2020

Total episodes: 246

 

01. Maria Wedig (Nina Klee): 158

02. Gisa Zach (Yvonne Bode) : 150

03. Anne Menden (Emily Wiedmann) : 148

04. Wolfgang Bahro (Dr. Jo Gerner) : 138

05. Olivia Marei (Toni Ahrens) : 135

06. Thaddäus Meilinger (Felix Lehmann) : 131

07. Felix van Deventer (Jonas Seefeld) : 130

*** Timur Ülker (Nihat Güney) : 130

09. Daniel Fehlow (Leon Moreno) : 126

10. Patrick Heinrich (Erik Fritsche) : 125

*** Felix von Jascheroff (John Bachmann) : 125

 

12. Niklas Osterloh (Paul Wiedmann) : 123

13. Eva Mona Rodekirchen (Maren Seefeld) : 122

14. Ulrike Frank (Katrin Flemming) : 121

15. Jörn Schlönvoigt (Dr. Philip Höfer) : 120

16. Iris Mareike Steen (Lilly Seefeld) : 115

17. Ronja Herberich (Merle Kramer) : 108

18. Valentina Pahde (Sunny Richter) : 103

19. Thomas Drechsel (Max "Tuner" Krüger) : 99

20. Gamze Senol (Shirin Akinci) : 83

 

21. Clemens Löhr (Alexander Cöster) : 77

22. Lennart Borchert (Moritz Bode) : 76

*** Vildan Cirpan (Dr. Nazan Akinci) : 76

24. Chryssanthi Kavazi (Laura Lehmann) : 72

25. Nils Schulz (Robert Klee) : 60

26. Annabella Zetsch (Brenda Schubert) : 50

27. Livia Gaiser (Leyla Akinci) : 37

28. Joana Schümer (Rosa Lehmann) : 32

29. Birgit Würz (Patrizia Araya) : 29

30. Frederik Funke (Aaron Thiel) : 27

 

31. Jan Kittmann (Tobias Evers) : 24

32. Emilia Klauk (Kate Wiedmann) : 22

33. Senta-Sofia Delliponti (Tanja Seefeld) : 17

34. Charlott Reschke (Johanna Gerner) : 12

35. Uta Kargel (Lena Bachmann) : 2

 

[Huntress]

After not having been able to celebrate their 6500th episode properly due to coronavirus, UU will have an Event Week in March 2021.
The title is "Im Visier der Vergangenheit" (roughly translated as "Targeted by the Past").

According to a press release, Sina (Valea Scalabrino), Ute (Isabell Hertel) and Eva (Claudelle Deckert) will occupy center stage as the most important aspect of their lives – their children – will be targeted. Apparently, a person who everybody thought was dead will return to stalk the residents of Schillerallee 10 once more.
Fans are already speculating that this mysterious person can only be Rolf Jäger, the show's resident psycho, who committed suicide in 2016 by driving his motorcycle into a canyon – or his daughter Fiona, who faked her own death by spreading blood in the courtyard a few months after her father's demise.

 

This is the official print campaign, featuring Tabea Heynig as Britta, Isabell Hertel as Ute, Valea Scalabrino as Sina, Constantin Lücke as Till, Jens Hajek as Benedikt, and Alexander Milo as Jakob. Claudelle Deckert as Eva can be seen in the background. Everyone pictured (except Jakob who wasn't on the show back then) was terrorized by Rolf and/or Fiona in the past.

 

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[gyroscope]

That sounds interesting, Huntress.  

 

I've tried watching Unter Uns a few times but it's never grabbed me in. 

 

I'm all caught up on GZSZ now and up to date with episodes and really enjoying it.  I loved Emily's reaction to finding out about Philip and Patrizia. The actress is so good. Her face when she saw them coming out the elevator was priceless! 

I'm also loving the Nihat and Lily 'relationship' though I really like Lily and it always goes wrong for her (whatever she says this time about not looking for a full relationship) so I'm dreading that happening. 

Katrin's new guy seems interesting, though it seems very predictable that he either a) killed his old love  or b) she'll arrive back just as they're about to get married. Maybe GZSZ will suprise me and it will head in an interesting direction. 

I'm even actually enjoying the Erik storyline with the faked burglary and the money, and normally I don't care for him. 

 

The only storyline I don't understand what is going on with is the whole Yvonne/Laura/Moritz thing. My German is not good enough to pick up on what's going on and understand all the back story that I've missed.  Huntress would you mind explaining a bit about it if you've got the time, please?

 

 

[Skylover]

I'm watching October episodes at the moment. I love Moritz' sibling relationship with Laura.

[Huntress]

Episode Counts: January 2021

 

GZSZ

Total episodes: 20

 

01. Ulrike Frank (Katrin Flemming) : 17

02. Thaddäus Meilinger (Felix Lehmann) : 16

*** Maria Wedig (Nina Klee) : 16

04. Iris Mareike Steen (Lilly Seefeld) : 15

05. Chryssanthi Kavazi (Laura Lehmann) : 13

06. Jan Kittmann (Tobias Evers) : 12

07. Wolfgang Bahro (Dr. Jo Gerner) : 11

*** Vildan Cirpan (Dr. Nazan Akinci) : 11

*** Patrick Heinrich (Erik Fritsche) : 11

*** Olivia Marei (Toni Ahrens) : 11

*** Anne Menden (Emily Wiedmann) : 11

*** Valentina Pahde (Sunny Richter) : 11

*** Eva Mona Rodekirchen (Maren Seefeld) : 11

14. Jörn Schlönvoigt (Dr. Philip Höfer) : 10

*** Birgit Würz (Patrizia Araya) : 10

*** Gisa Zach (Yvonne Bode) : 10

17. Niklas Osterloh (Paul Wiedmann) : 9

18. Daniel Fehlow (Leon Moreno) : 8

*** Ronja Herberich (Merle Kramer) : 8

*** Felix van Deventer (Jonas Seefeld) : 8

*** Felix von Jascheroff (John Bachmann) : 8

*** Timur Ülker (Nihat Güney) : 8

23. Lennart Borchert (Moritz Bode) : 6

24. Thomas Drechsel (Max "Tuner" Krüger) : 3

25. Uta Kargel (Lena Bachmann) : 3

 

AWZ

Total episodes: 20

 

01. Tatjana Clasing (Simone Steinkamp) : 16

*** Igor Dolgatschew (Deniz Öztürk) : 16

*** Christopher Kohn (Dr. Finn Albrecht) : 16

04. Silvan-Pierre Leirich (Richard Steinkamp) : 15

*** Tijan Nije (Moritz Brunner) : 15

06. Lisandra Bardél (Malu Santos) : 14

07. Matthias Brüggenolte (Justus Albrecht) : 13

*** Lars Korten (Christoph Lukowski) : 13

09. Berrit Arnold (Daniela Bremer) : 12

*** Sam Eisenstein (Marian Öztürk): 12

*** Dominik Flade (Yannick Ziegler) : 12

*** Ania Niedieck (Isabelle Reichenbach) : 12

*** Julia Wiedemann (Lucie Ziegler) : 12

14. Julia Augustin (Dr. Vanessa Steinkamp) : 11

*** Alexandra Fonsatti (Chiara Nadolny) : 11

*** Jasmin Minz (Kim Bremer) : 11

*** Cheyenne Pahde (Marie Schmidt) : 11

*** Kaja Schmidt-Tychsen (Jenny Steinkamp) : 11

19. Franziska van der Heide (Ina Ziegler) : 10

20. Jörg Rohde (Ben Steinkamp) : 9

21. Folke Paulsen (Georg Albrecht) : 8

22. Felix Gibert (Henry Steinkamp) : 3

23. Ingeborg Brings (Frau Renate Scholz) : 2

 

UU

Total episodes: 20

 

01. Jens Hajek (Benedikt Huber) : 17

*** Alexander Milo (Jakob Huber) : 17

03. Isabelle Julie Geiss (Nika Färber) : 16

*** Valea Katharina Scalabrino (Sina Hirschberger) : 16

05. Patrick Müller (Tobias Lassner) : 15

06. Jakob Graf (Luke Färber) : 14

*** Yannik Meyer (Conor Weigel) : 14

*** Antonia Michalsky (Saskia Weigel) : 14

*** Lars Steinhöfel (Easy Winter) : 14

10. Benjamin Heinrich (Benno "Bambi" Hirschberger) : 13

*** Isabell Hertel (Ute Kiefer) : 13

*** Tabea Heynig (Britta Schönfeld) : 13

*** Luca Maric (Robert Küpper) : 13

*** Milos Vukovic (Paco Weigel) : 13

15. Timothy Boldt (Ringo Beckmann) : 12

*** Constantin Lücke (Till Weigel) : 12

17. Sharon Berlinghoff (Vivien Köhler) : 11

18. Josephine Becker (Leni Weigel) : 10

*** Isabel Vollmer (Monika Huber) : 10

20. Andrea Brix (Roswitha Küpper-Pütz) : 9

*** Claudelle Deckert (Eva Wagner) : 9

22. Jonathan Elias Weiske (Sebastian Hoffmann) : 8

23. Clara Olbertz (Amelie Hirschberger) : 7

24. Akeem van Flodrop (Theo Wolters) : 6

*** Matthias Paul (Anton Hoffmann) : 6

26. Paul Eilert (Julius Engel) : 5

27. Lena Klöber (Sarah Fuchs) : 2

28. Finn Luca Cramer (Noah Weigel) : 1

*** Lea Ermel (Maja Kiefer) : 1 

[Skylover]

Thanks Huntress. I know no-one probably remembers (I'm watching November) but I feel like I missed something with Moritz. In the episode I just watched, he met up with someone who gave him a bag of watches to sell. What happened there? I don't remember seeing the guy before. Thanks in advance.

[Skylover]

What a cow Laura is!!

[Skylover]

I love Moritz and Nihat's relationship. I wish they were together on screen more

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That moment when Jo realises Felix and Laura had set the whole thing up!! Jo and Katrin are a good double act, I loved seeing them figure out the truth together.

Edited February 2, 2021 by Skylover

[gyroscope]

You sound like you're watching some good stuff Skylover.  I missed all these episodes so the storyline's all a bit of a mystery to me.  What is still really clear is that Laura is a right horrible cow still! 

 

Yes, the friendship between Moritz and Nihat is cool, thought they don't seem to be on-screen together at all at the moment. Nihat's back doing all his 'friend' scenes with Tuner and Paul. 

 

The pay off for the Phillip/Jon/Patrizia storyline reveal was well worth the wait! What a scene!

[Skylover]

 

If there's anything you missed that needs explaining I'm happy to, other than the above about why Moritz started selling stolen watches as I don't know what happened there. I've pretty much been constantly watching GZSZ to catch up. I just watched the final episode of December so January for me tomorrow! In terms of the storyline - Felix and Laura kidnapped Rosa and framed Moritz for it. They orchestrated it so that Jo would hide the 'evidence' against Moritz and used it all to blackmail Jo and Katrin into getting the business. But then Jo realised that Felix was behind the kidnap and got him to sign the business over to him. 

 

Yvonne is amazing!! She's my favourite character in the show, but I love Jo and Moritz too, and Emily. And Katrin, actually. The actress who plays Yvonne has been so good recently. I loved the episodes when Yvonne found out about Felix and Laura framing Moritz for Rosa's kidnap. And the confrontation between Yvonne and Laura was great. As if Laura had the hide to tell Yvonne she didn't need a mother like her. Moritz was stupid for getting involved in selling the stolen watches but I was glad Jo agreed to represent him and that things were sorted between Jo, Yvonne and Moritz for Christmas. 

 

 

Don't know if you've seen it but Nihat nearly got into trouble because the stolen watches Moritz was selling were found at the cafe by the police and Moritz hid the fact that they were his watches, so Nihat could have gone to prison. I imagine Nihat has distanced himself from Moritz since then maybe(?).

 

If anyone could please explain what this return storyline is (with all those flashbacks etc) for Sunny please I'd be really grateful. I wasn't watching when she left I don't think.

 

The less said about Eric the better

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 I just find him so annoying. Eric and Jonas are easily the weakest characters in the show.

 

 

I haven't seen this yet but I'm looking forward to it! Did you see the scene where she nearly got in the shower with John thinking it was Philip? Yuck, haha!

Edited February 6, 2021 by Skylover

[gyroscope]

 

You've explained it pretty well there I think! Thanks for the catch up.  I loved Jo and Katrin when they were together and enjoy any scenes they have together now.  I'm still not convinced by Katrin's new love interest. I just hope when more gets revealed about his missing wife (if it ever does) that its not as predictable as it seems. 

 

I didn't like Yvonne much when I restarted watching , but I've really changed my opinion.  The actress really is great you're right. and the fact she's in the middle of lots of good storylines helps. 

I'm not clear on this either. I think it all happened to Sunny on the TVNow exclusive spin off show? I didn't watch that, and the flashback's they've used don't really help. It all seems to have been forgotten about now anyway!

 

I screamed in horror with this scene!   Additionally, Emily is easily one of the best characters on the show though.  Her facial expressions and reactions are priceless.  I do miss the little friendship group she had with Sophie and Jasmin though,  she doesn't fit as naturally with the current group I don't think. 

 

 

[Huntress]

Yes, the Sunny stuff happened in the spin-off "Sunny – Wer bist du wirklich?". They did a special flashback episode on GZSZ to summarize the events that happened on the spin-off.
Apparently, the spin-off was quite successful – I haven't watched it, though.

 

Meanwhile, UU is bringing back two characters from the distant past: Chris Weigel and his wife Corinna Weigel, née Bach. Both characters were part of the original cast back in November 1994. Played by Oliver Bootz and Cecilia Kunz, both Chris and Corinna were huge fan favorites.
Chris is the oldest son of Wolfgang and Irene Weigel (both deceased), the older brother of Till and Anna Weigel, the cousin of Paco Weigel, and half-brother to Rolf Jäger and Sina Uhland Hirschberger. At the beginning of the show, Chris was 19 years old and wanted to become a cop.
Corinna, a biology student, was one of the first residents in the attic apartment of Schillerallee 10 where she lived with her friends Jennifer Turner, Melanie Hoffmeister and Armin Franke. At the beginning of the show, Chris and Corinna were clearly interested in each other, but both turned to different partners. In the summer of 1997, however, they fell in love, and after some turmoil they left Cologne together to move to the Maledives where Corinna had found a research job.
At Christmas 1998, for the 1000th episode, Corinna returned for a brief guest appearance when the residents of Schillerallee 10 where held hostage by mobsters. In this difficult situation, Corinna gave birth to her and Chris's daughter Cäcilia. After that, Chris and Corinna hadn't been seen in over 22 years.

 

Now, the couple returns to Cologne to reunite with Chris's brother Till who's still living at Schillerallee 10.
Both characters have received a recast, though: Chris will now be played by Jan Ammann, and Corinna will be played by Nina Weisz. Joining them are their two children Cäcilia (played by Carina Koller) and Matteo (played by Jashan Gupta).

 

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Edited February 8, 2021 by Huntress

[Forever8]

Sounds interesting!!! Are you glad to see them coming back? 

 

[Skylover]

Sunny's annoying.

[Huntress]

 

She'll be gone for another 3 months soon because the actress takes part in "Let's Dance" (German version of "Strictly Come Dancing") 

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I'm not sure yet because these two characters have been gone for so long ... they'll probably be two completely new people. However, a resurgence of the Weigel family is badly needed as they have always been the core family of the show.
And yes, Chris returned from the army in the show's opening episode.

 

These were the original portrayers Cecilia Kunz and Oliver Bootz ... they were pretty, flawless 90s people.

 

 

 

The new actors look more grounded and middle class. On the right is Chris's younger brother Till who received a recast as well last year.
BTW, the actor Constantin Lücke is openly gay and happily married.